Hmm, interesting... But the main features of CosmosEx don't lie in the floppy emulator part, but in the hard disk / network drive / network card part (the floppy emulator is there in case you either want it, or you decide to put the device in place of original floppy, so you won't loose the floppy part completely).

Cyprian wrote:Jookie, would be possible to use that device as an graphics card?

It could be done, but it would lower your hard disk transfer speed and it probably wouldn't work well with existing games and demos (if it would be done through ACSI port), but if you are asking only about supporting new stuff, then you could get interesting things out of it (although there would be lack of ST software for that).

If I'm reading it right, will this support USB sticks in the same way that Ultrasatan supports SDCards ? e.g Will HDDriver 'see' a USB stick and let me format it with TOS/Windows compatability ? as that would be BRILLIANT

spiny wrote:If I'm reading it right, will this support USB sticks in the same way that Ultrasatan supports SDCards ? e.g Will HDDriver 'see' a USB stick and let me format it with TOS/Windows compatability ? as that would be BRILLIANT

Yes, you have two options:- use native mode - access the sectors of the USB stick using HDDRIVER or ICD Pro with the TOS / Windows compatibility stuff (just like UltraSatan)- use translated mode - have Windows partition on your stick and use it through my driver, without HDDRIVER and the TOS / Windows compatibility. This translated mode is also used for folders shared from your windows / linux machine, and in both cases (USB stick and shared drive) it shows directly like another drive letter under TOS.

Great design ! From my point of view you made the right choice by exploiting correctly the RPi with Linux. RPi HW & Linux is a powerful couple allowing to make such things "easily" without reinventing the wheel : disk, file system and network support already there and working perfectly. I am thinking to use this kind of board in some products too. Here is something that i have experimented last year : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJEekEhZtD8